wood-wool

A form of wood wool — Fine shavings or fibers of wood, used as a stuffing, insulating or packing material, as a medical dressing, or combined with glue or cement to provide bulk to a building material.

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Meanings

nounwood-wool (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of wood wool.

    The raw material for wood-wool boards is likely to be 'waste' from other wood processes.

    2002, Tom Woolley, Sam Kimmins, Rob Harrison, Green Building Handbook, →ISBN
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    The writer has frequently made use of Hartmann's wood-wool as a dressing in his operations on the brain, and as he also induced a number of colleagues to observe its effect, he can speak from experience.

    1894, Medical Summary - Volume 16, page 43

    If you cannot get hay or wood-wool, several thicknesses of old blankets will do for the nest, and cut-up paper will do for the floor.

    2008, Alan Thompson, Claude Goodchild, Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps, →ISBN

    These individuals also used wood-wool and leaves to Absorb water from the floor or from a container, after which they sucked the water out of the sponging tool.

    2011, Robert W. Shumaker, Kristina R. Walkup, Benjamin B. Beck, Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals, →ISBN
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